New tiger reserves

·         On May 23, 2008 National Tiger Conservation Authority, in its third meeting under the chairmanship of S Regupathy, assured four new tiger reserves India. Sunabeda Tiger Reserve, Shahyadri TR, Pilibhit TR and Ratapani TR

·         These reserves are Sunabeda Tiger Reserve in Orissa, the Shahyadri Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra, the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve in Uttar Pradesh and Ratapani Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh.

Mission IAS’2009

·         National Tiger Conservation Authority accorded approval to a proposal from Karnataka to treat the Nagarahole National Park as a separate reserve. The reserve is presently a part of the Bandipur Tiger Reserve.

o        All four states had earlier submitted proposals to the Ministry of Environment and Forests 

·         UP got approval of GoI for declaring Pilibhit Forests in its Terai region as a tiger reserve.

·         UP had lost its tiger reserve, the Jim Corbett National Park, to Uttarakhand when the hill state was carved out of it.

·         GoI gave approval for declaring Pilibhit Forests in Terai region as a tiger reserve... three more states get a reserve each - Sunabeda in Orissa, Shahyadri in Maharashtra, and Ratapani in MP, and One park as a separate reserve.

·         India has 28 tiger reserves set up under the project tiger started in 1973.

·         Eight new reserves approved earlier were Kaziranga national park in Assam, Satkosia in Orissa, Perimbikulam-Annamalai on the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border, Mudumalai in Tamil Nadu, Dandeli Wildlife Sanctuary and Hansi National Park in Karnataka, Sanjay Gandhi National Park and Sanjay Dhubri Wildlife Sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh, Udanti and Sitanadi an Achanakmar in Chhattisgarh.